Sentences with phrase «ban on gay marriage»

Judge rules in favor of a same - sex couple saying state ban on gay marriage unconstitutional, Reuters

In 2005, the Texas Restoration Project sponsored «Reclaiming Texas Sunday,» a get - out - the - vote campaign in which pastors encouraged parishioners to support Proposition 2, a state constitutional ban on gay marriage.

Now that all the excitement over the presidential election has died down a bit, the country has turned much of its attention to the recent ban on gay marriage in California.

I don't understand how you can argue you want bans on gay marriage because of the Bible and then not also try to ban everything the Bible says is sinful?

Wanting a federal ban on gay marriage because your Christian sensibilities are offended when you think of it — even though once you take religion out of the equation you would have no good reason to oppose it as it literally does not affect you at all.

In the case of christianity, then that would mean a complete ban on gay marriage.

Evangelicals and Catholics have had a great relationship with the Mormon church after they bankrolled two, count»em, two statewide bans on gay marriage.

The beliefs of others impact even non-believers lives through the laws that they promote, e.g. bans on gay marriage, creationism in science class, reduced stem - cell research, abstinence only se.x ed., etc., etc..

Utah's ban on gay marriage harms the children of gays and lesbians, despite arguments the state has made to the contrary, according to an amicus brief filed Tuesday by a group of national and state gay rights organizations.

The new lyweds were married in September in Connecti cut to protest the previous ban on gay marriage in New York.

Cato has for the most part stuck to libertarian principles, advocating for the elimination of many federal agencies while also supporting the decriminalization of marijuana and opposing bans on gay marriage.»

Two days ago, a state court judge held that Missouri's ban on gay marriages performed in the state was unconstitutional.

The potential scandal may be enough to affect Tuesday's vote on the state constitutional ban on gay marriage or the domestic - partnerships initiative, some political watchers say.

While gay marriage advocates have enjoyed the upper hand in the courts since then, the Cincinnati - based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this month became the first to rule the other way in upholding state bans on gay marriage.

(More reasons why some people would vote against it besides sin) 31 states now have this ban on gay marriage.

«31 states now have this ban on gay marriage.

In other news: A U.S. district judge has overturned Michigan's bans on gay marriage and same - s.

I remember a few years ago, several churches in my area got really involved in the Tennessee legislature's effort to amend the state constitution to include a ban on gay marriage.

Rev. Bernice King led a march to her father's graveside in 2005 while calling for a constitutional ban on gay marriage.

How about abortion laws, and bans on gay marriage?

Utah's ban on gay marriage was intended to preserve the family unit.

A federal judge overturned Texas» ban on gay marriage.

But nothing to rival the former Tennessee representative's latest: He's moved in the course of just three years from supporting a constitutional ban on gay marriage to supporting the practice.

According to Mr. Biondo, the senator favors civil unions and is opposed on philosophical grounds to lifting the state ban on gay marriages.

Ken Mehlman, the Republican strategist who engineered George W. Bush's re-election in part by campaigning on a constitutional ban on gay marriage — and then came out as a gay man himself — helped marshal support among recalcitrant factions in Albany.

Now the candidates to succeed Baldacci are facing questions on how they plan to handle the aftermath, with Republican Paul LePage supporting a ban on gay marriage and Democrat Libby Mitchell and independent Eliot Cutler backing gay marriage.

Otter has been an outspoken opponent of marriage equality despite a ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that struck down the state's ban on gay marriage, a r... Read

Mitt opined that excluding gays from the military is «discrimination,» as are bans on gay marriage.

Robert Sarvis, a LP candidate for Governor, declares «I am campaigning to repeal the state constitutional ban on gay marriage and recognize same ‐ sex marriages from other states.»

In a historic triumph, the United States Supreme Court made it's landmark ruling to allow same - sex couples to marry in all 50 States and ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional.

Overturning the state's ban on gay marriage «takes two consecutive sessions of the Legislature and a vote of the people to change,» he said.

Or perhaps you have more practical concerns, such as the impact of the amendment on marriages that took place following the California Supreme Court's June 2008 ruling striking down the ban on gay marriage.

Last week, a federal district court in Missouri joined a chorus of state courts in striking down the state's ban on gay marriage.

On Monday, May 19, 2014, U.S. District Judge Michael McShane struck down Oregon's ban on gay marriage.

The headlines are so consistent, they could be written by a computer: «Judge strikes down state ban on gay marriage.»

In October a federal judge struck down Arizona's ban on gay marriage and now same sex marriages are legally recognized in the state.